er their Cods with
fresh Butter and Soot, and so turn them loose, but not suffer them
to lye down all that day. By this way they are secured from breeding
Maggots. And I never knew any die upon this.

[How they make Glew.] Whensoever they have occasion to use Glew,
they make it after this fashion. They take the Curd of milk, and
strain the water from it through a cloth. Then tying it up in a
cloth like a Pudding, they put it into boyling water, and let it
boyl a good while. Which done it will be hard like Cheese-curd,
then mixing it with Lime, use it. If it be not for present use,
they will roul up these Curds into a Ball; which becomes hard,
and as they have occasion will scrape some of it off with a Knife,
and so temper it with Lime. This Lime with them is as soft as Butter.

[Their Manufactures.] Their Manufactures are few: some Callicoes,
not so fine as good strong Cloth for their own use: all manner of
Iron Tools for Smiths, and Carpenters, and Husbandmen: all sorts of
earthen ware to boil, stew, fry and fetch water in, Goldsmith's work,
Painter's Work, carved work, making Steel, and good Guns, and the like.

But their Art in ordering the Iron-Stone and making Iron, may deserve
to be a little insisted on. For the Countrey affords plenty of Iron,
which they make of Stones, that are in several places of the Land;
they lay not very deep in the ground, it may be, about four or five
or six foot deep.

[How they make Iron.] First, They take these Stones, and lay them
in an heap, and burn them with wood, which makes them more soft
and fitter for the Furnace. When they have so done they have a
kind of Furnace, made with a white sort of Clay, wherein they put a
quantity of Charcoal, and then these Stones on them, and on the top
more Charcoal. There is a back to the Furnace, like as there is to a
Smith's Forge, behind which the man stands that blows, the use of which
back is to keep the heat of the fire from him. Behind the Furnace they
have two logs of Wood placed fast in the ground, hollow at the top,
like two pots. Upon the mouths of these two pieces of hollow wood
they tie a piece of a Deers Skin, on each pot a piece, with a small
hole as big as a man's finger in each skin. In the middle of each
skin a little beside the holes are two strings tied fast to as many
sticks stuck in the ground, like a Spring, bending like a bow. This
pulls the skin upwards. The man that blows stand with his feet, one
on each pot, coverin